No genuine observer can decide otherwise than that the homes of a nation are the bulwarks of personal and national safety and thrift.

Almost everywhere men have become the particular things which their particular work has made them.

Immortality--twin sister of Eternity.

A man does not necessarily sin who does that which our reason and our conscience condemn.

Preceptive wisdom that has not been vivified by life has in itself no affinity for life.

I softly sink into the bath of sleep: With eyelids shut, I see around me close The mottled, violet vapors of the deep, That wraps me in repose.

Many men and women spend their lives in unsuccessful attempts to spin the flax God sends them upon a wheel they can never use.